1NICE(1) User Commands NICE(1)
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6 nice - run a program with modified scheduling priority
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9 nice [OPTION] [COMMAND [ARG]...]
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12 Run COMMAND with an adjusted niceness, which affects process schedul‐
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20 -n, --adjustment=N
21 add integer N to the niceness (default 10)
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23 --help display this help and exit
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28 NOTE: your shell may have its own version of nice, which usually super‐
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32 GNU coreutils online help: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
33 Report nice translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/>
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36 Written by David MacKenzie.
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39 Copyright © 2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU
40 GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
41 This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
42 There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
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45 nice(2), renice(1)
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47 The full documentation for nice is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If
48 the info and nice programs are properly installed at your site, the
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57GNU coreutils 8.22 October 2018 NICE(1)